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Chapter 3, lesson 3
By: Isabella Escobar, Jose Jui, Jose Urrutia, Samuel…
Chapter 3, lesson 3
By: Isabella Escobar, Jose Jui, Jose Urrutia, Samuel Raigosa, and Esteban Zamora
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Debate in Virginia
The Federalists had reached the minimum number of states required to put the new constitution in order.
Virginia and New York had still not ratified, many people saw that those two states were key states for the government's success.
By the end of June 1788, Maryland, South Carolina and New Hampshire had ratified the constitution.
The Bill of Rights
During the campaign to ratify the Constitution, the Federalists had promised to add such amendments
In September 1789, the Congress agreed on 12 constitutional amendments and they were then sent to the states for ratification, but only ten were approved.
One of the leaders in Congress, James Madiso, made the passage of a bill of rights top priority. He hoped it would demonstrate the good faith of federal leaders and build support for the new government.
In drafting the Bill of Rights, Madison relied heavily on the Virginia Declaration of Rights that George Mason prepared in 1776 and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom that Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1777.
Ratification
North Carolina waited until a bill of rights had actually been proposed, then voted to ratify the Constitution in November 1789
The United States now had a new government, but no one knew if the new Constitution would work any better than the Articles of Confederation had.
By July 1788, all the states except Rhode Island and North Carolina had ratified the Constitution.
Rhode Island, still nervous about losing its independence, did not ratify the Constitution until May 1790, and even then the vote was very close 34 to 32.